Google Seeks to Avoid Paying Authors in Book-Scan Program

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Google Inc. urged an appeals court to uphold its victory in a court challenge to its project to digitally copy millions of books.

A lawyer for the world’s biggest search-engine company called the project “incredibly transformative,” arguing its mission to help people find books online makes Google’s display of parts of the books a “fair use” under copyright law.